Remember this vintage quilt I was quilting? It's now living with its new owner and they love it. That makes me so happy!
It was full of beautiful vintage prints, calico fabrics, bed linens and even some random polyester. Most of the fabrics had been washed so I decided to back it with a flat bed sheet as well.
I went out and bought a nice, new sheet for the backing and went home to wash and dry it before basting. No big deal, right?
So after I finished quilting it I began trimming the backing and batting to square the quilt up for binding. As I trimmed one of the edges I noticed a label with 100% Egyptian cotton printed on it.
I did not buy an Egyptian cotton sheet for this quilt back.
But we had been missing a flat sheet to one of our sheet sets. Oh, dear.
I'm usually a little slow cleaning up these scraps after quilting because I'm always anxious to get to the binding part but this time I couldn't get those scraps cleaned up fast enough. Destroy the evidence!
I told Instagram all about it and then I kept quiet... until we were out to dinner with Steve's family. I quilted this quilt for a friend of Steve's aunt so the subject of the quilt came up over dinner and how much the new owner loved the quilt. I figured this was as good of a time as any since I was surronded by family in a public place and I told the truth of where our missing sheet had gone.
Guess what one of my Christmas presents was?? Yep, new sheets.
Steve should have had them monogrammed...